Perhaps. I am looking at https://saidit.net/, Quora, and other platforms as well. Source: 12 months ago

What's the criteria you'd need to be met for "something comparable"? Because I'd say running our own https://saidit.net/ site would be pretty identical. Source: about 1 year ago

I love IRC but it serves a slightly different purpose. It isn't threaded and it sacrifices permanency for instantaneousness. In my opinion, a forums and chat rooms compliment each other. Saidit is one good Reddit alternative that implements IRC. It's based on Reddit's code but with some modifications. Every page has an embedded IRC box specific to that subcommunity. Source: about 1 year ago

For Reddit alternatives, it looks like https://saidit.net/ (https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit) and https://phuks.co/ (https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat) could be viable alternatives. They're open source, have the UX features we desire (threaded, voting, sorting, collapsing). Source: about 1 year ago

Someone already did it - it's called saidit and it works well but very few people have gone there so far. Source: about 1 year ago

In my day job[0], I talk to a lot of start-up ventures about blockchain. Only one was honest enough to say they were only using it because, at the time, it was easier to get funding. [0]: https://hyperledger.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Ethereum is not just currency at its core, its a smart contract platform which is used to implement distributed consensus, where each participating party sign the result, with their consensus algorithm. Currency is a side effect. You can just remove the entire ETH/gas dependency on the base, to use the platform as a distributed ledger between all the participants. And use another kind of consensus algo(proof of... Source: almost 3 years ago